welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler and here are tonight's top stories. the house of representatives passed a $1.1 trillion budget today, the bill goes to the senate and the vote is expected by the end of the week, the bill covers airports to other costs. the remaining 34 allegedly involved in cheating on monthly proficiency test. the 12-year-old suspect of the new mexico shootings, planned

his attack, five years ago today captain sully sullenberger, landed a jet in the middle of the hudson river. a flock of geese took out the engines right after takeoff. all 155 passengers and crew members were rescued. i'm john siegenthaler. "consider this" is up next. remember, you can always get the latest news on aljazeera.com. >> white house helpless to stop it? also a new ruling could dramatically change the way we use the internet. might it limit free speech? plus a-rod blasted by america's

antidoping agency. with no negative drug test what's ahead? how much does it cost to get nominate? i'm antonio mora and welcome to "consider this". here's more on what's ahead. >> the security was inadequate. >> there were plenty of advance warnings. >> this is going to go down as the

i think that's a threat to internet freedom that the fc now has largely unconstrained authority to regulate the internet this any way they want. >> sarah? i think you look at it that different way that jeff does.

>> certainly. i think the loss of the open internet rules was a tremendous one for users. where beings and internet subscribers and also for content providers who would otherwise want to provide new innovative services to those end users and their ability i think to do that could be extremely limited and hamstrung going forward. >> jeff, let's try talk about this in english. basically what happens here is that companies internet service providers the verizons and comcasts and at&ts of the world can basically decide whether or not they want to charge some of the people who have websites money for delivering them to you. is that a good way of putting it? >> that's an -- exactly correct. they have that authority you know in the mobile broadband space today. so let's just take an example of one in the news this week and that's at&t's plan to charge

espn for information that's carried over mobile networks rather than charging consumers for that same information. so at&t is saying to consumers you know we'll charge you less or not count it against your data caps when you watch espn content because we've gotten espn to agree to pay for that instead of you. i think most consumers are going to think that's a pretty good deal and that would have been prohibited in the wire line broadband world by these rules except those are gone and those deals are permitted, again i think that's a good thing for consumers. >> sarah, why should i care if it's the espn's and the youtube and the other companies that have to pay the corporate giants? >> the idea that users can access whatever content they want online. whatever websites they want online, they can communicate with whoever they want to online. without these rules in place

their ability to do that is severely threatened. wikipedia has nearly 4.5 million articles on their english site alone. imagine wikipedia as they were going through their growth and becoming this large company, an internet provider would say, you know, i don't want my users to access wikipedia, it's not kind of vision i want to portray to my customers or maybe they were about to build their own cloud sourced encyclopedic service. based on wikipedia as a threat, or college professors who see it as a headache rather than a help, it's a valuable service in the internet space, and absent the rules provide and where the internet isn't a platform and

aural types of service websites and services can compete, we just don't see -- we won't see that type of innovation and disruptiveness going forward. >> sarah you have a point. we've seen it with cable providers, they don't like their deal with cbs as time-warner didn't, they took cbs off the air for weeks. would we want that to have time-warner or comcast or verizon saying youtube isn't paying me enough money so i'm not going to give you youtube? >> let's look at a couple of different points. first of all the kinds of disputes you are talking about here happen extremely rarely. the reason why they're so rare, those kinds of disputes happen less frequently than your electricity goes out. you are much more likely to not be able to watch something on television because your electricity was out, than because there was a dispute

between them. the reason why, there's win win win deals, the consumers benefit, the distributors benefit, the notion that tan isp a verizon would cut off a wikipedia or google is a little wacky, it hasn't happened, the reason it is wacky is, to destroy or to make those kinds of services unavailable ask to make themselves less stroobl their consumers that hasn't happened. >> cable companies have stopped it at times. on the other hand sarah, netflix youtube eat up enormous amounts of the broadband spectrum and so why shouldn't they pay more money? >> because they're already paying for carriage of that service. so the way it works is that a content provider that uses a -- particularly ones that use a large amount of capacity and bandwidth, that content is

already being hosted by what we call a content delivery network, a server deep in the network that tend to provides the last mile access, the access from a certain point in the network to your front door and into your building. so these commercial -- these contractual agreements are already being negotiated within the network and netflix is already paying someone for their high capacity traffic to be carried. so what we're essentially looking at is a situation where comcast would then or at&t or time-warner would then go to comcast and say hey i know you're already paying a content delivery to host your content and they're negotiating carriage with me but you know what, i really would like you to pay me one more time so you can reach these customers at the end of my internet line and because of the way that the internet is built there tends to be only one -- households don't tend ohave

multiple subscriptions to the internet within their household, they have one. we have a terminating relationship, if netflix or google or whomever wants to reach the end user they only have one way to do so. >> thank you for joining us. now the latest bombshell, the new york times reports reports that 100,000 computers in the world have been surreptitiously implanted with spy device he even when the device isn't connected to the internet. i'm joined by peter e.ckerslee. thank you for joining us. the nsa has its eyes everywhere but this one is straight out of

a movie. the conventional wisdom is if your computer's off and not connected to the internet you're safe. this is code naw name quantum. how does it work? >> if you are a bank and you need a super-screwer computer, you're not going oconnect it to the internet. you are going to do that disconnection thing where you unplug from the internet, you do your bank calculations off line. here we have learned that the nsa will sneak a little device into your office inside a usb cable maybe and this usb cable will contain a tiny antenna that can broadcast to an nsa station maybe eight miles away and they can hack your computer there. >> how do they manage to do it to 100,000 computers? >> it turns out this type of spy

activity is getting cheaper. you can go on amazon and buy an sd card called an i-fi. you are suddenly going to invisibly undetectably to you, connect to a wifi. we should have realized that these intelligence agencies these spy-type people will be pulling fancier version he of these kinds of tricks to break into hundreds of thousands of computers because that's what turns out to be happening. >> the nsa says it's only doing this overseas. are you confident that's the case? >> we hear all sorts of cleverly worded denials from the nsa, in this case maybe it's overseas or maybe it's also happening in the united states. we should also understand that it's not just the nsa. dozens of countries have these intelligence agencies, these spice, and we can be sure that

the iranians, the chinese, if russians, the french, they'll be trying to do this too. >> do you think the americans are going to care about it? >> i think what we are seeing here is a big question mark over the relationship between intelligence vaghts which are really their own class of institutions worldwide and the regulation of society, businesses individuals, political activist groups, all of us are potential targets for this kind of spying and i think right now what we're seeing is intelligence agencies think it's open season and fair game to target and spy on the world citizens. >> and in fact china and america have apparently been using the technology on each other according to the report but the u.s. is using it on mexican police and mexican cartels, in saudi arabia and india and pakistan. this is clearly an important project for the intelligence

community. shouldn't this have been made known,. >> certainly you can think about a leak about what the united states does helps the russians or the chinese or the french if those are the people that the united states is crossing swords with. but you can also slice the question as i sort of did before between the intelligence agencies the spy agencies and the rest of humanity. and i think having transparency and the forecast about what these spy agencies are up to is vital for the rest of us for if health of democracy and open free societies to understand the political threats we're taking on from having these spice everywhere. >> despite that opinion some of this information had been leaked or at least the information came through edward snowden's leak. do you think this is going ohurt snowden's image in the united states? he doesn't seem to be that unpopular. recent polls think that a mortgage of americans think he's a whistle blower.

but after more of this comes out with the methods of the intelligence community, do you think that will change? >> i think americans want to know the truth. edward snowden seems to have told us a lot of things that were going on that we at least didn't know about or at least suspected. i think he brought transparency and light to places where there were shadows and we needed to know what was going on. >> peter, thank you for joining us. we are going ohave more on this tomorrow when journalist glen greenwald will be a guest, you can tweet in by using hashtag #ask greenwald. gianna. >> enabled the rape of thousands of children by pedophile

priests, the holy see, using evidence related to abuse cases from around the world, including findings from the grand jury investigations from around the state used the hearing as an encouraging development. >> we are hoping that finally, that pope francis and that the church officials will take action that will actually protect children today and in the future. >> and in anticipation of tomorrow a spokesperson for the pope said. >> translator: we have full confidence that a construct itch dialogue will be carried out going forward to reach the exact goals the values and what the convention proposes in its different forms. >> and just today's archdiocese of chicago released to victims attorneys thousands of pages of new documents documenting raises

transparency to a new level, it will be helpful we pray for some but painful for many. you can read more at the website, america.aljazeera.com. and antonio, those could be released to the public law as early as next week. >> it's about time that this transparency is taking place. thank you gianna. >> legal team gets ready for a new round, is a-rod running out of options? >> and oscar nomination, why it takes big bucks to get in the

>> the number of critics of alex rodriguez seemingly grows every day. called a-rod's regimen, the most potent developed for an athlete than we've ever seen. this week, the 13-time all-star, claiming that the union didn't do fuf to help him and that baseball had it in for him. let's bring in dave zyron, host

of edge of sports radio. joins us from silver spring maryland. dave good to see you. a-rod never tested positive, of course neither did lance armstrong. did he get what he deserved? >> well, that all depends on your perspective. if i'm a yankees fan i absolutely think he got what he deserved because it means i get $25 million off the team's payroll and perhaps getting out from under the $87 million that they still owe him and weighing on the franchise like the boneless elephant in the bronx. to be able to suspend players for as long as the commissioner sees fit i'm also for it. if i think it needs scorched earth to expunge players from the game. if i think a strong baseball

player's union is a good thing then it rings very, very wrong. first offense should be 50 games, major league baseball wanted 211, and he end under with 162. it gets them out from under his contract for a full season. >> he's suing baseball, he's suing the union, saying the union didn't do enough for him but now the union has come back and is complaining that baseball is piling on in its attacks on a-rod. where does it end? >> that's a great question. i tell you if we were charting the winners and losers, the top would be alex rodriguez' attorneys. they are going to make a fortune. on the one hand, one can understand it because the mlbta and alex rodriguez have never truly seen eye to eye.

i mean alex rodriguez is one that has never supported the union in a meaningful way throughout his career. that being said i think tactically alex rodriguez going after the union makes no sense whatsoever. the mlbta, that's the union, has a pulse on this situation. we are sitting back as alex rodriguez was going through the agony of last year and now with major league baseball going on 60 minutes, spiking the football if you will, piling on bud selig being like hulk hogue an, saying we got 'em everybody that got the mlbta's ire up. for alex rodriguez to go after them now is tactically more ontic. >> because of the peds, the performance enhancing drugs, it seems like almost everything is tainted. what's the solution, should

everything be legal, if you do go down that road and say you can take whatever you want, what does that mean for kids? >> about what to do, i personally think this lies on the margins of this debate not the center of the debate. because the center is about more and more testing and all that really does is encourage and incentivize more and more sophisticated cheating, more and more masking agents and more and more ways to beat the tests, which more and more finding refuge with people like anthony bosch the nondoctor. prescribingprescribing medicati. basically treating players like lab rats, that's the only way, or the other way is you have to do a decriminalization program.

have a conversation with experts, about what is technology and that medicine has changed over the years. >> you have to worry about kids following examples and taking those things at a very young age. >> i think kids are smarter than that. do you want to end up like alex? >> look at this guy he is a gazillionaire, he dates models and actresses. isn't that one of the problems? >> the recent marijuana situation in colorado, it makes it easier to be a controllable substance. i think that's one of the ways to answer. >> i want to switch topics, i want you to weigh in on what happened yesterday. a federal judge telling the nfl hold your horses on that concussion settlement worth

three quarters of a billion dollars, he's concerned there's not enough money there. now an attorney for the players is saying that he would recommend that a number of players reject the settlement. this is certainly not the kind of thing nfl wants to be hearing as we approach the super bowl. >> not at all. it takes a story they thought they had under lock and key before the season and explodes it right when the largest number of people in the united states and the world are tuning into the guam. i think the number of players delinking from the settlement is going to necessarily go anywhere. judge anita brody, als disease, which is utterly debilitating, and costs a fortunate to manage, the variance of pain is so profound

that it creates a real problem in thinking that there's a one size fits all settlement. >> it's led to all sorts of suicides. very quick question only have about ten seconds for you. some of the lawyers that are defending, do you think there's a conflict of interest here? it could give them $112 million. >> with attorneys there's always a conflict of interest but i trust that these guys have the best interests of the players at heart. how is that for a ten-second answer? like i'm running for office. >> still ahead, oscar expense, the surprising cost of getting

>> as this year's oscar nominations are announced today's data dive takes a look at the high price of getting nominated. it comes a lot the awards season. get in front of oscar nominating committee members. that could mean more than $2 million for a smaller formula, $10 million for bigger movies, all before the nominations are announced. there are screening dvds, sent

out, with oscar hopeful, you want to get your film to the right talk shows and magazines, that means paying strategy gists to plot. yet not to mention your for your consideration ads. and the hollywood reporter. a full page add could run more than $25,000. big hol take parties where stars of the year's top movies could mingle with journalists, hoping that would read to more coverage. stars need hotel and transportation, it all adds up. even foreign language film campaigns can carry six-figure price tags. l.a. and new york for a week to consider, that means they have to do what is called four-walling a theater, meaning

they have to buy all the seats within the four walls of the theater, that is a steep cost. does it pay off? the scarcely seen hurt locker spent a mere $5 million and it won best picture in 2010, beating avatar. not a bad return on investment. findin

>> brad meltzer has sold millions of books. now he has embarked on what he says could be his most important piece of writing. children's books. earlier i had a chance to catch up with him. , brat meltzer, histories decoded, and children's books, children change the world.

i am amelia earhart and i am abraham lincoln. >> those books are for me and these are for my children. i tell my kids all the time that's being famous, and being famous is very different than being a hero. so if i can give them you know better heroes and lessons to live by, that's the legacy i'd rather have, something for them. >> and you were inspired to do this because of the clothes your daughter was wearing. >> that's where i started, i was smopg for my daughter and all i could find was something with princesses on them. i find these historical heroes. i have amelia earhart and

abraham lincoln. i had my friend, who i know no bounds. my daughter loved this shirt. if we have a shirt and an image we can tell our story and we all know there's nothing like the power of a well told story. let's put it this way. if i tell my daughter that amelia earhart flew across the atlantic ocean, when amelia was only seven years old she build a home made roller coaster in her backyard. she pushed it from the roof of her tool shed and got on the reef and skied down, and tumbled and fell and said, that was awesome. she said she's just like me.

she's brave and daring and fun and now amelia earhart is back alive. >> very consciously what we wanted to do is if you show them as adults the kids can't relate as well but when i kept them as kids when the artist did that my daughter says oh she's like me and my daughter sees the potential and the power from her and -- within her and that's the series. >> how they changed the world. going back to paul simon and gar funkle. >> across the board women who had become these terrific wonderful heroes, there are a lot of these stories out there to tell. >> the beautiful part of it is i'm not making up these stories,

they're there. what we have done as a culture is open up a magazine, look at the cover of any magazine, you don't see amazing women or men, what you see is dumb stars in a bikini in miami. there was a story that came out last week, when you tell a person a story, their whole brain lights up. when you give them a faculty, when you tell them a story, the farther of your brain that controls running starts working. for instance, one of my stories, the books are i am amelia earhart, i am abraham lincoln. when he was ten years old he came upon a group of boys that were playing with turtles. he loved animals when he was a kid. when had a they were doing they were putting holt coals on top

of the turtles, my young son was like, abraham lincoln is brave. i want to be like him. the next day is the first political speech he writes about being nice to animals and now again abraham lincoln, i can tell my kids he's president and he freed the slaves, we always do, but in a strange odd way it's great, vital news but when i teld them a young kid like that that he saves those animals you know those turtles they feel like i can be brief too. >> now one thing you don't do in these two books both characters had untimely deaths. >> we picked the ones with the most gruesome deaths we could pick. >> why not address the deaths in the books? >> we deal with slavery in i am abraham lincoln and in amelia you are never going to survive

this flight across the ocean, for a book for 13 and 14-year-olds, you should do that. i don't want the message to be if you are and risk being a hero, you are going to get a bullet in the brain. i don't think that should be in the children's book. maybe in the adult version plus my wife would kill me if i gave her that message. >> why these two? >> i picked amelia because my daughter loves her. she really responded to her. for abraham lincoln for me is the american icon. there are so many stories, we didn't even put them in the book. we found a story about abraham lincoln when he was younger, he stops this horse and gets up and picks them up and puts them back in the tree. he said why are you doing that? he said, if i didn't do it, i wouldn't be able to sleep

tonight. he lives up to it story after story after story. >> pardonnen the pun but who's on the drawing board? >> well said. my goal isn't just to do amelia and abraham, we want to build a whole library we want to do a whole library, i am rosa parks, and in september we do i am albert einstein. we have the first six kind of mapped out right now but my goal is to do 60 of them. like you sid there are so many heroes out there. your kids are going to pick heroes whether you like it or not, you might as well have some say in it. >> seven or eight-year-olds draw them into reading histories of important people who can really teach them lessons, you have done a terrific job and a very good thing to be remembered for, if this is what you are remembered i'm sure you will be

remembered long into the future. >> i tell you one story my son read the rosa parks book, i test them out early to see what they react to. my younger son was being bullied, my older son says, you should be like rosa parks, you should stand up to these bullies. my wife told me she was crying, i said are you kidding me? it actually worked. it is not the stories of these famous people, it's a story of what we are capable of on our best daisd. >> tbrad meltzer, thanks for being with us. i am amelia earhart and i am abraham lincoln on store shelves now. we'll s

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